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by Laura Douglas-Brown
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May 24, 2013 17:09 |
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"Following the Landslide," the new CD from Atlanta singer-songwriter Lucas Mire, accomplishes what can often be a difficult task: Many of the tunes deal with loss, but the album leaves listeners feeling more introspective than inconsolable.
"The album deals with loss and grief — mainly around the death of my mother when I was in my early 20s, but also about the end of my last serious relationship," says Mire, who marks the release of his third full-length album with a 7 p.m. show Saturday at Eddie's Attic in Decatur.
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by Gregg Shapiro
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May 24, 2013 00:00 |
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The name Molly Ringwald will probably mean something different to you depending on how old you are. If you were a movie-going adolescent or adult in the early 1980s, Ringwald began making a strong impression on audiences in Paul Mazursky’s “Tempest,” followed by the double whammy of the late John Hughes’ “Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club,” not to mention “Pretty In Pink.” Other folks, who might have tuned in to “Different Strokes” and “The Facts of Life,” just prior to that, will remember her as Molly Parker on both shows.
Ringwald’s reign as the Queen of the Brat Pack ended by the late 1980s, although she continued to work regularly in film and on TV. In the late 2000s, following a second marriage and motherhood, Ringwald had a full-scale career comeback, including stints on Broadway and the TV series “The Secret Life of the American Teenager.” But there’s so much more to Ringwald than all that.
Ringwald is the author of two books, most recently the stellar “When It Happens To You: A Novel in Stories,” which came out in paperback May 7.
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by Jim Farmer
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May 24, 2013 00:00 |
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Luck of the draw determines the participants in the Atlanta Fringe Festival. As fate would have it, two of the shows in the upcoming event have LGBT themes.
The mission of the Fringe Festival is to provide a platform for indie, underground playwrights doing edgy work. In all, the second annual Atlanta Fringe festival, opening June 5, spotlights 24 shows, but the offerings are not chosen in traditional manners.
Applicants are placed into a hat and drawn, says Diana Brown, the company’s artistic director, although the company does reserve the option of saving a few spots at the end to make sure the event is balanced.
“We don’t want to have 20 solo shows or shows just about white people,” she says.
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by Cliff Bostock
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May 24, 2013 00:00 |
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The infamous Atlanta heat and humidity were finally on their way. Except for the eye-clogging, car-covering pollen that turned the city yellow, it was hard to remember exactly when winter and spring changed places. For now, on the cusp of summer, the evenings remained mild and the air clear.
In Atlanta, that meant the city’s diners flooded restaurant patios to see and be seen. Robert remembered a time, 30 years ago, when it was nearly impossible to find patio and sidewalk dining in Atlanta.
“Our beloved city council made even that difficult, as I recall,” he said to Lee and Janet, who were dining with him at Zocalo on Tenth Street.
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by Staff
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May 24, 2013 00:00 |
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Girlyman members need your help with kids’ album
Three members of the queer band Girlyman have launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund their new kids’ music project, dubbed Django Jones after member Doris Muramatsu’s Chihuahua.
With members Muramatsu, Nate Borofsky Tylan Greenstein and JJ Jones, Girlyman wowed audiences with beautiful harmonies and emotional songwriting. The band went on hiatus in 2012 and Greenstein recently released a solo album.
Now Muramatsu, Borofsky and Jones want to take their sometimes silly songs to kids. The trio says they have been writing and recording songs for a debut album, “D is for Django,” and have 14 songs and five “jingles” ready to “mix, master and press to disc.”
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